ENGLAND’S BAD COOKERY

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17609, 27 October 1931, Page 2

ENGLAND’S BAD COOKERY

SIR G. NEWMAN’S ATTACK . LONDON, Sept. 12. “-There is still much apathy and ignorance in the choice of foods, often associated with deplorable inaptitude in cookery,” states Sir George Newman, chief medical officer of the Ministry of Health, in his report for 1930. “We continue many old bad habits in regard to ‘meals, which we permit to become monotonous and stale, badly cooked, unappetising, untidily served,” Sir George declares. “Many hungry consumers bolt their food, or wash it down with tea or beer, forgetting that such a custom is unfair to the food, the tea, the beer, and the body. “Some persons, no doubt, are underfed, but many are over-fed —giving their poor bodies little jest, clogging them with yet more food, and disregarding the imperative necessity to health and appetite of a thoroughly cleansed alimentary t tract.”